Stockbridge Market

Another nighttime blip, this time of the old Stockbridge Market arch.

The market was designed by Archibald Scott in 1825, and was apparently modelled on Liverpool’s market. Archibald Scott was only twenty-seven when he was given the contract by Captain Carnegie, who owned the two tenements on either side of St. Stephen's Place, so presumably wouldn’t have minded the enormous wall which was part of Scott’s design.

Archibald Scott went on to be the preferred architect for a dozen years, from 1848-60, for the National Bank of Scotland, involved in repairs and building new braches. The National Bank survived for over one hundred years, a pioneer of mobile banking, before being swallowed by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1957.

It's Friday tomorrow, hurrah.